ALAN CASS is a retired college administrator with an interest in Newfoundland maritime and local history.

CHRIS CASSIDY graduated in December 2003 with a Master’s in archaeology from the University of Reading and is currently working as a freelance writer. Her studies have focused on evolutionary theory and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition.

VALERIE LEGGE is a Professor in the Department of English Lanaguage and Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her area of specialization is early Canadian women writers and travellers. She is currently completing a biography titled "Agnes C. Laut: ‘Only a Rough Neck Woman’," based on the professional activities of one of Canada’s earliest and most successful "lady journalists."

PAUL S. MOORE teaches Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. He has authored several articles on the social history of cinema in North America. Now Playing: Early Movie-going and the Regulation of Fun details the first decade of picture shows in Toronto, forthcoming from the State University of New York Press.

MIKE O’BRIEN received a PhD from Queen’s University in 1998. He currently teaches in the Department of History at Memorial University.

CRAIG T. PALMER is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has performed fieldwork in Newfoundland since 1990. His research focuses on incorporating cultural traditions within evolutionary theory.

LISA SATTENSPIEL is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She uses archival data and mathematical and computer models to understand the geographic spread and impact of infectious diseases, especially the 1918-19 flu epidemic, in Newfoundland, central Manitoba, and northern Ontario.